how do you feel using trisquel?

I can't confirm the negative experiences Armworm has made.
My system runs very reliable und stable, offering to me almost everything I want to do 100% in freedom (at least concerning the OS).

If I compare the amount of discomfort when using Trisquel and using windows (former times with win7, long ago) I can clearly say, that the work with trisquel is much more fun.
No annoying java-updater and flash-updater and adobe updater crying one after another for updates; no "you can't shutdown your pc now, you have to wait half an hour while our crappy updates get installed and you have no option to choose different".

But now concerning the freedom:
There is this good feeling everytime I switch on the pc, saying:
Yes, computing should be like this! In freedom, valuing the user, flexibel and reliable.
This feeling gets even bigger when I listen to music on jamendo.com, sharing this music with friends by an encrypted mail;
it's the feeling like this is the right track.
Everytime I do my work with free software or enjoyed a good game experience, like battle for wesnoth, there is this feeling of joy and I think: well, it works! it's not just phantasy.

On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 06:03:12 +0200 (CEST)
name at domain wrote:

> i just installed Trisquel in my hard drive in my desktop, its very
> exciting, it was freaking easy and the default installation is very
> complete and polished... i started using linux when ubuntu was in its
> beginings, then i had to quit it. and know im here for the freedoom,
> which is waning... it gives me huge satisfaction being using a free
> software... tell me hows been your experience?...

After 2 years of using Trisquel GNU/Linux, I have not missed using any
other distro nor Operating System. Above all, I feel great that I
support and use a distro that respects me as a user.

I don't ever regret the time I spent in Wesnoth, even though it's not my gametype and I skip through all levels just to listen to the story with :debug and then give power ups to my units with unit moves=555 or unit hitpoints=1111. That way I listened to the story of IftU, AtS and more adventures. Also spent numerous hours on ANL. I have never regretted spending time with this good free software, Battle for Wesnoth.

Now concerning Trisquel, I had hoped it was a free alternative to Ubuntu, but I'm afraid it didn't live up to its dreams, at least not the way I imagined it or wanted it. The little I tried it, I was impressed by some things, so Trisquel sure has made its impressions on me, but I wouldn't go as far as call it "a free/libre software version of Ubuntu".

I find Trisquel gives me a very good user experience. But only after buying the right hardware. Too many manufacturers don't want to allow for their hardware to work with free drivers. Before the update I had lots of problems with my videocard, but otherwise it was very good already.

I also find the thought of using only free software pretty liberating and somehow calming. However the whole system is very stable, I rarely encounter errors or bugs and if I do, they are quite harmless.

I found Ubuntu to be much more unstable and it broke on me much more frequently. Once I updated to a newer release in Ubuntu and suddenly there was no sound and some other issues. Never seen that in Trisquel.

I feel comfortable using GNU+Linux Trisquel. It does everything I want to do for a daily use, or for a more complex use like audio and video editing, graphic design, and something even cooler than the last: graphic design with CMYK colors, using Scribus (also a free software).

For those without time, please jump to the last paragraph, before my manually inserted signature.

Using the latest GNU+Linux Trisquel (6.0, Toutatis), I just need simple configurations (which are done with user-friendly interfaces) and some hours of downloading (my Internet is very slow, but this process can be done at midnight) to have my useful desktop set (not considering the configuration of each application, which is very fast and user-friendly). :D

Apart from productivity I also have a big list of games but, despite its size, I just play these games casually because I try to be productive most of the time when I don't have home obligations and homeworks from the faculty which I attend.

In the beginning, I was a normal computer user (not that I'm not being one nowadays because I hate when people, including me, call others "normal users", but since I haven't found any replacements, I'll leave this phrase the way it is). I was also a fanatic for video games (gamer), these were also part of my childhood memories, which I kept at my side every time through the fantastic kind of software called emulator.

Anyway, I don't want to write everything that's already written in my Portuguese Brazilian Wikipedia user page, just to make things short.

After some time, I joined the free software community and noticed that I didn't need to keep my childhood video games anymore. Nowadays, I just download video games when I want to write critics about them, or when some of my friends or parents want to play them.

I see, from daily observations, that free software needs to also have an user-friendly documentation available within the software in question and for use mostly by users without an Internet connection, and if possible, in the user's native language. The apex of my observations was when I had to replace the operating system of one of my aunts' portable computer. She wasn't, and she's still not, an advanced user (I don't like this words either), and she haven't even heard anything about terms like "proprietary", "open source", and "free software". So, the situation was really delicate.

So I decided to write an user-friendly guide for her and place it in her portable computer. The guide was written very quickly because of the deadline for the completion of the task, and the homeworks from the faculty which I attend, but still, I liked, and I still like, the resulting documentation. Now she can use the portable computer normally, and when she feels the need, she can read the user guide, or ask me. I also try to ask her about how her portable computer is doing, just to make sure she doesn't forget to ask me anything if she wishes to.

One of my uncles, which joined the open source software community, read the user guide I wrote and he liked such approach used.

I already talked with some people from the GNU+Linux Trisquel community about such user guides, but I still need some time to talk about it more further.

In short, users just need to worry about one thing: hardware. It's best to look for opinions from the free software community and see some tests results published by users in the site h-node.org.

Best regards, ADFENO.
Have a nice day.